Topic: FLOOD OF NOAH DIDN´T COVER WORLD IN KORAN Posted: 25 August 2005 at 4:23am

A.S.A! I am interested about all science and bible (and history)
oriented proofs on behalf of Islam, from all fields, and I think I have
found some that maybe non-other has noticed before, so please help
translating and spreading them, to increase faith of us all (it surely
did it for me, very strong reasons why I accepted Islam, I put many
links if some will not open in one hour due to high traffic) :

FLOOD OF NOAH: According to Koran flood of Noah only involved people of
(prophet) Noah, whole world is not said to have sunk (as in the Bible).
Strongest candidate for "people of Noah" might be developed nation
found from bottom of Black Sea, which people did not have time to
escape when masses of water from Mediterrean Sea flow into it after
straits of Bosbor (in place of modern Istanbul) collapsed thousands of
years ago. Another good candidate is "lost Atlantis", that has been
with high probability (descriptions of "Atlantis" match) located from
southern Spain, as it sunk into sea on the coast:
&nbs p;
3:33 mentions Noah as important messenger among
others like in 4:163 and in 6:84. 7:64 (and 21:77+25:37+37:82+53:52)
mentions that (only) those who rejected message of Noah (people he was
sent to) were drowned, no other except Noah is mentioned to have had
"sign" then. Inheritors of Noah in 7:69 (and in 37:77 "offspring") are
only part of people on earth, ancestors of people of Israel. 10:73
people from ark who "inherit the earth" (37:79 "salutation to Noah
among the nations") really got it as religions of Aabraham (relative of
Noah) cover over 50% of worlds population. 11:40 (and in 23:27 "valley
overflows"+54:12) "water came forth from the valley" (Shakir
translation) could describe how Bosbor-straits broke, also some heavy
rain (54:11) and fountains (Yusufali translation) from ground might
have gushed forth at same time, "(take) of each kind two, male and
female" does not really mention all species of animals or plants in
world, it does not mention animals/plants at all, only humans (his
family and those who followed Noah), 26:119 mentions only filled ark
("with all creatures" is interpretation of Yusufali), can be it with
humans and food and some animals. 11:43 Noah´s son mentioned going to
mountains, but he never got that far as waves "came between them", no
mention of flood covering mountains. 11:44 earth "swallowing" water and
sky "withdrawing" can not be very much water in any sense. 11:48
confirmed that "there will be" (= they will be introduced to) other
people that were not in Ark. 17:2-3 comfirmed that descedants of Ark
are people of Israel, from son of Aabraham.In 29:14 "(Noah) tarried
among them a thousand years less fifty" can mean that Noah was with his
people for 950 years, or that he was with them last 50 years from
millennium, or even that he was with them for time of "thousand years"
in ours account, so according to Koran (22:47) one "day" in Allah´s
sight (as Noah was prophet and belongs with Allah), it can be only
reason why this "less fifty" is said and not 950 years mentioned
straight, so almost one day (if 50 means years, 95% from day, if
"fifty" means 50% then half day) trying to preach them (as according to
Koran there is only few descriptions about his sayings, 29:18 "duty of
the messenger is only to preach publicly", maybe after that day he
began to build ark). In 69:11 interpretiating "you" into mankind is
only from Yusufali translation, it could be Noah, or morelikely his
offspring and so "you" could be addressed to prophet Muhammed who was
also offspring of Aabraham (so "you" in 69:12 is also maybe addressed
to prophet Muhammed only). In 71:25 Allah spoke about certain people of
Noah mentioned in aya´s 1, 7 and in 23 with their gods. Notice, in
11:46 Allah told for His prophet that he is "acting like ingorant"
despite counceling of Him, so was prophet Noah sinless? In 71:26 Noah
requested that no single one of unbelievers would be left on earth, but
Allah gave no answer to that.

13,000 years ago there was a huge ice sheet 2mi thick covered most of the northen hemisphere.

at this time the worlds oceans were an estemated 400 - 500 feet lower then now.(it was like that for 100,000 yrs.)

also at this time the persin gulf was completely dried up.(this was the valley that overflowed) .

this ice sheet only took they say 150-200 yrs. to melt. a blink of an eye in time. as the oceans rose the water passed over the strates of hermoze(forgive spelling) thus flooding the valley( the garden of eden)

a researcher has used satilites and found the two lost river beds( of the pishon and the gihon) that flowed from iran on one side of the gulf and the other flowed from arabia on the other side. and they would have met with euphrates and tigris rivers under what is now the gulf.

also we are now finding that all around the world there are masive buildings and piramids that are so deep under water that they could have only been built when the oceans were at the low point mentioned above. ( this would be the race of man that was distroyed)

thus cities didn't " sink ". the water rose. the russians say thay have found a huge undewater city complex in the atlantic but will not tell where it is.

so how do you relate this happening to later people?? how could they understand what took place??

well a few years ago archeologists found a tablet( dates 6000 bce) by the old city of ure( spelling). on this tablet it told a story.

a story of a buisness man who owned a bardge and carried goods up and down the river. well all at once a deludge came flowing down the river flooding all the area. like a great sunami it wash all who along the river away devistating the land.

well this man and his family gained safty from this on their bardge. surived the deludge got washed into the persan gulf where they drifted for seven days or so they landed on an isiand ( bahrane they think). he returned a hero for the feat but under sumarien law he was lible for the cargo left on shore that was lost.

unable to pay he was benished for some time till he was able to return.

the name of the man on the tablet was NOAH.

SO AS ADAMS ( GODS FIRST PROPHET) LIFE RETELLS THE CREATION THAT HAPPEN BEFORE HIM SO WE CAN UNDERSTAND IT .

SO THE STORY OF NOAH AND HIS EXPREAENCE IS USED TO RELATE THAT RISING OF THE OCEANS AND THE END OF THE EARLER RACE MAN .SO ALSO WE CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT TOOK PLACE.

AND ABOUT THE GARDEN OF EDEN .

IT'S BEEN WRITEN THAT THE TREE OF LIFE LIES IN THE " ENDLESS SEA". AND GROWS IN THE "SEA OF ETERNITY" AND STANDS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE "ETERNAL SEA"

If the flood was a local one, why would God according to the Quran order Noah to take aboard 2 of every species of animals?

Also, according to Ibn Abbas' tafsir of 37:77, humans are all descended from Noah's sons.

bnAbbas

(And made his seed the survivors) until the Day of Judgement. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Yapheth. Shem is the father of the Arabs and those people
surrounding them; Ham is the father the Abyssinians, Berbers and
inhabitants of Sind; and Yapheth is the father of the rest of people,

13,000 years ago there was a huge ice sheet 2mi thick covered most of the northen hemisphere.

at this time the worlds oceans were an estemated 400 - 500 feet lower then now.(it was like that for 100,000 yrs.)

also at this time the persin gulf was completely dried up.(this was the valley that overflowed) .

this ice sheet only took they say 150-200 yrs. to melt. a blink of an eye in time. as the oceans rose the water passed over the strates of hermoze(forgive spelling) thus flooding the valley( the garden of eden)

a researcher has used satilites and found the two lost river beds( of the pishon and the gihon) that flowed from iran on one side of the gulf and the other flowed from arabia on the other side. and they would have met with euphrates and tigris rivers under what is now the gulf.

also we are now finding that all around the world there are masive buildings and piramids that are so deep under water that they could have only been built when the oceans were at the low point mentioned above. ( this would be the race of man that was distroyed)

thus cities didn't " sink ". the water rose. the russians say thay have found a huge undewater city complex in the atlantic but will not tell where it is.

so how do you relate this happening to later people?? how could they understand what took place??

well a few years ago archeologists found a tablet( dates 6000 bce) by the old city of ure( spelling). on this tablet it told a story.

a story of a buisness man who owned a bardge and carried goods up and down the river. well all at once a deludge came flowing down the river flooding all the area. like a great sunami it wash all who along the river away devistating the land.

well this man and his family gained safty from this on their bardge. surived the deludge got washed into the persan gulf where they drifted for seven days or so they landed on an isiand ( bahrane they think). he returned a hero for the feat but under sumarien law he was lible for the cargo left on shore that was lost.

unable to pay he was benished for some time till he was able to return.

the name of the man on the tablet was NOAH.

SO AS ADAMS ( GODS FIRST PROPHET) LIFE RETELLS THE CREATION THAT HAPPEN BEFORE HIM SO WE CAN UNDERSTAND IT .

SO THE STORY OF NOAH AND HIS EXPREAENCE IS USED TO RELATE THAT RISING OF THE OCEANS AND THE END OF THE EARLER RACE MAN .SO ALSO WE CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT TOOK PLACE.

AND ABOUT THE GARDEN OF EDEN .

IT'S BEEN WRITEN THAT THE TREE OF LIFE LIES IN THE " ENDLESS SEA". AND GROWS IN THE "SEA OF ETERNITY" AND STANDS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE "ETERNAL SEA"

Salaam Alaikum, Nazarene. This is really fascinating stuff. Do you have any sources you can provide us for the following claims:

also we are now finding that all around the world there
are masive buildings and piramids that are so deep under water that
they could have only been built when the oceans were at the low point
mentioned above. ( this would be the race of man that was distroyed)

thus cities didn't " sink ". the water rose. the russians say thay have found a huge undewater city complex in the atlantic but will not tell where it is.

If the flood was a local one, why would God according to the Quran order Noah to take aboard 2 of every species of animals?

Also, according to Ibn Abbas' tafsir of 37:77, humans are all descended from Noah's sons.

bnAbbas

(And made his seed the survivors) until the Day of Judgement. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Yapheth. Shem is the father of the Arabs and those people
surrounding them; Ham is the father the Abyssinians, Berbers and
inhabitants of Sind; and Yapheth is the father of the rest of people,

If I am not mistaken, Ibn Abbas knew both Muhammad and his companions personally. Ibn Jalalayn and Ibn Kathir confirm people are all descended from Noah in their tafsirs.

The tafsirs do not say that "all" people were descended from the sons of Noah (pbuh), but only the people in a certain geographical locality:

"(And made his seed
the survivors) until the Day of Judgement. Noah had three sons: Shem,
Ham and Yapheth. Shem is the father of the Arabs and those people
surrounding them; Ham is the father the Abyssinians, Berbers and
inhabitants of Sind; and Yapheth is the father of the rest of people," (Tafsir of Ibn Abbas)

"and made his
descendants the survivors, thus all human beings are descended from him,
peace be upon him. He had three sons: Shem (Sām), the ancestor of the
Arabs, the Persians and the Byzantines; Ham (Hām), the ancestor of the
Negroes; and Japheth (Yāfith), the ancestor of the Turks, the Khazar and
[the peoples of] Gog and Magog and [the inhabitants of] such regions." (Tafsir Al-Jalalayn)

"(Sam was the father of the Arabs, Ham was the father of the Ethiopians
and Yafith was the father of the Romans.)'' This was also recorded by
At-Tirmidhi. What is meant here by Romans is the original Romans, i.e.,
the Greeks who claimed descent from Ruma (Roma) the son of Liti, the son
of Yunan, the son of Yafith, the son of Nuh, peace be upon him." (Tafsir Ibn Kathir)

As you can see, none of the tafsirs mentions other civilizations like those inhabiting North and South America, China, Japan etc. They only refer to the people in some parts of Asia, Africa and Europe. Therefore, it cannot be concluded based on the tafsirs whether the flood was regional or global. It could have been either. It is a matter of faith either way because we are talking about events which occurred thousands of years ago. I tend to lean towards the flood being regional. If it was global, then it means that other arks could also have been made because Allah (swt) would have warned all people in the world, not just the people of Noah (pbuh), but his story was told because it is the most well-known.

Say: "Truly, my prayer and my service of sacrifice, my life and my death, are (all) for Allah, the Cherisher of the Worlds. (Surat al-Anaam: 162)

If the flood was a local one, why would God according to the Quran order Noah to take aboard 2 of every species of animals?

Also, according to Ibn Abbas' tafsir of 37:77, humans are all descended from Noah's sons.

bnAbbas

(And made his seed the survivors) until the Day of Judgement. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Yapheth. Shem is the father of the Arabs and those people
surrounding them; Ham is the father the Abyssinians, Berbers and
inhabitants of Sind; and Yapheth is the father of the rest of people,

If I am not mistaken, Ibn Abbas knew both Muhammad and his companions personally. Ibn Jalalayn and Ibn Kathir confirm people are all descended from Noah in their tafsirs.

The tafsirs do not say that "all" people were descended from the sons of Noah (pbuh), but only the people in a certain geographical locality:

"(And made his seed
the survivors) until the Day of Judgement. Noah had three sons: Shem,
Ham and Yapheth. Shem is the father of the Arabs and those people
surrounding them; Ham is the father the Abyssinians, Berbers and
inhabitants of Sind; and Yapheth is the father of the rest of people," (Tafsir of Ibn Abbas)

"and made his
descendants the survivors, thus all human beings are descended from him,
peace be upon him. He had three sons: Shem (Sām), the ancestor of the
Arabs, the Persians and the Byzantines; Ham (Hām), the ancestor of the
Negroes; and Japheth (Yāfith), the ancestor of the Turks, the Khazar and
[the peoples of] Gog and Magog and [the inhabitants of] such regions." (Tafsir Al-Jalalayn)

"(Sam was the father of the Arabs, Ham was the father of the Ethiopians
and Yafith was the father of the Romans.)'' This was also recorded by
At-Tirmidhi. What is meant here by Romans is the original Romans, i.e.,
the Greeks who claimed descent from Ruma (Roma) the son of Liti, the son
of Yunan, the son of Yafith, the son of Nuh, peace be upon him." (Tafsir Ibn Kathir)

As you can see, none of the tafsirs mentions other civilizations like those inhabiting North and South America, China, Japan etc. They only refer to the people in some parts of Asia, Africa and Europe. Therefore, it cannot be concluded based on the tafsirs whether the flood was regional or global. It could have been either. It is a matter of faith either way because we are talking about events which occurred thousands of years ago. I tend to lean towards the flood being regional. If it was global, then it means that other arks could also have been made because Allah (swt) would have warned all people in the world, not just the people of Noah (pbuh), but his story was told because it is the most well-known.

Sorry, but none of the tafsirs say people in a certain geographic locality were affected by the flood.

Ibn Jalalayn specifically wrote that all human beings are descended from Noah.

"and made his
descendants the survivors, thus all human beings are descended from him,
peace be upon him. He had three sons: Shem (Sām), the ancestor of the
Arabs, the Persians and the Byzantines; Ham (Hām), the ancestor of the
Negroes; and Japheth (Yāfith), the ancestor of the Turks, the Khazar and
[the peoples of] Gog and Magog and [the inhabitants of] such regions." (Tafsir Al-Jalalayn)

Unless you want to argue that people outside of certain parts of Europe, Africa and Asia are not human beings, it is made pretty clear that all humans descended from Noah's family.

Ibn Kathir in his tafsir makes it pretty clear the whole earth was flooded. I was going to save these points for our debate, but here we go anyways.

Ibn Kathir in his tafsir made it pretty clear that God destroyed all on the face of the earth who were disbelievers, that there were no 'sons of Adam' (human beings) alive on the earth except those who boarded the boat, and that all people descended from the offspring of Noah.

Tafsir of 71:26

(And Nuh said:
"My Lord! Leave not one of the disbelievers on the earth Dayyar!'')
meaning, do not leave a single one of them on the face of the earth, not even a
lone individual. This is a method of speaking that gives emphasis to the
negation. Ad-Dahhak said, "Dayyar means one.'' As-Suddi said, "Dayyar
is the one who stays in the home.'' So Allah answered his supplication and
He destroyed all of those on the face of the earth who were disbelievers. He
(Allah) even destroyed Nuh's (biological) son from his own loins, who separated
himself from his father (Nuh). He (Nuh's son) said,

(And
We rescued him and his family from the great distress.) means, their disbelief
and their insults.

﴿وَجَعَلْنَا ذُرِّيَّتَهُ هُمُ الْبَـقِينَ ﴾

(And,
his progeny, them We made the survivors.) `Ali bin Abi Talhah reported that Ibn
`Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, "There was no one left apart
from the offspring of Nuh, peace be upon him.'' Sa`id bin Abi `Arubah said,
narrating from Qatadah concerning the Ayah,

﴿وَجَعَلْنَا ذُرِّيَّتَهُ هُمُ الْبَـقِينَ ﴾

(And,
his progeny, them We made the survivors.) "All people descended from
the offspring of Nuh, peace be upon him.''

(Verily,
when the water rose beyond its limits, We carried you in the boat. That We
might make it a remembrance for you, and the keen ear may understand it)
(69:11-12), which means: `We left for you ships that you ride upon to travel
across the depths of the seas, so that you may remember the blessing of Allah
towards you when He saved you from drowning, and made you the descendants of
those who believed in Allah and followed His commandments.'

Ibn Abbas divided the descendants of the sons of Noah into three groups, the Arabs and those sorrounding them, the Abyssinians, Berbers and people of Sind, and "the rest of the people".

"(And made his seed
the survivors) until the Day of Judgement. Noah had three sons: Shem,
Ham and Yapheth. Shem is the father of the Arabs and those people
surrounding them; Ham is the father the Abyssinians, Berbers and
inhabitants of Sind; and Yapheth is the father of the rest of people," (Tafsir of Ibn Abbas)

None of the tafsir say that the flood was a regional event or that the descendants of Noah are only people in a certain part of the world, yet Ibn Kathir and Ibn Jalalayn say that all people descended from Noah's family, Ibn Abbas divides the sons of Noah's inhabitants into a few ethnic groups and "the rest of people" and Ibn Kathir makes it explicitly clear that God destroyed everyone on the earth who did not go on the ark.

I don't think it can be any more clear that the flood was global and wiped out everyone except those who went with Noah on the ark.

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